A Note On Faith

I don't feel it is necessary to go into too many details about how I got this far.  My main goal is for this blog to be relatable, and I feel that speaking generally about my life instead of going to specifics will help readers identify with these words a bit more.  You may know that since I was small I have always had Faith in God, but I grew up in a circle of many Faiths.  It taught me that there are many paths to Grace, but God has a separate road for each person to travel on their journey. I think of my journey along this path as a-typical, but I suppose most people who have strayed from the designated road and come back a little wiser believe the same thing about themselves.  The important thing to know is that my road has been easy, but the shortcuts I tried to take proved to be most scary and difficult.  And like a typical stubborn human, eager to learn things the hard way, I ran off the beaten path and let go of God's hand more than once.  Sometimes without even realizing it, and at other moments would willfully throw myself into situations I must have known would hurt me and even others.  And yet every time I came back onto that road, God was always waiting patiently for my return.
As a child I thought of the world as very black and white.  Good people are good.  Bad people are bad, but as I grew to adulthood and stumbled off God's path several times, I realized that good people sometimes make big mistakes and people who we think are bad sometimes turn out to do something amazing and generous.  The world is not so cut and dry, but we do classify ourselves as a particular party, religion, race, culture etc.  As humans we feel the need to categorize and label Everything that is important to us.  

Which brings us to the Bible.  

The Bible is not black and white.
The Bible is not cut and dry.
The Bible is the story of humanity having one failure for every few successes and slowly moving towards God, and for this reason it will ALWAYS be relevant to our present day lives.  We all succeed, we all fail, and we all come back a little stronger and wiser.  Just like God's chosen people in Scripture.  


We  argue about the Bible a lot in this day and age.  As a result it becomes another vehicle for us humans to classify and separate one another.  This blog has been created to grasp the essence of the story.  To dig deeper and find what unites us versus what separates us.  So whether you are christian, Muslim, Jewish, atheist, just curious, or you just don't have a clue, I am inviting you along this new journey with me as I read the Bible in its entirety for the first time in my life. :)